ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,829, issued on April 8, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Battery" was invented by Kazutoshi Kohira (Hyogo, Japan), Keisuke Naito (Osaka, Japan), Shinya Geshi (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Takasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Kazumichi Shimizu (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery including: a battery can including a cylinder portion including an opening edge portion at one end portion of the cylinder portion and a bottom portion that closes the other end portion of the cylinder portion; an electrode body; a sealing member that seals an opening of the opening edge portion. The seal...